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Safety In Numbers (2005)-A FilmInk Review
A FilmInk DVD Review by John Doe
Safety In Numbers
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This review appears in the November 2006 issue of FilmInk. Available at newsagents NOW
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This is the last one that was published for this month. So the site returns to normal with me talking up the films I enjoy watching.
DVD Cover
Year:2005
Rating:MA
Genre:Horror
Director:David Douglas
Cast:Teo Gebert, Alan Lock, Christian Marcel, Gabriella Maselli, Tory Mussett, Jessica Napier
Distributor:IDT Home Entertainment
Available:September 2006
The Film:1 out of 5
This Australian horror film gives you stomach cramps and squirms for all the wrong reasons. Frighteningly it echoes Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead and has about the same level of success with suspense and scares.
It’s not nice to speak ill of the local products, but this one really does more harm than good. It’s all a grating meld of Aussie, American, Kiwi and Brit accents.
Ex reality TV show contestants go to an island where they are killed off by an ex reality TV show contestant (Wesley), the killer in camo-gear.
This isn’t a spoiler as the script waffles on about “Wes this” and “Wes that” at least 15 times in the first 15 minutes.
You have to put up with 40 minutes of laughable over acting, infantile scripting and clumsy attempts at atmosphere. Before death even comes knocking, then when the carnage begins its all off camera and in daylight.
Even the most desperate of horror fans will have nothing to get excited about here.
Rating:MA
Genre:Horror
Director:David Douglas
Cast:Teo Gebert, Alan Lock, Christian Marcel, Gabriella Maselli, Tory Mussett, Jessica Napier
Distributor:IDT Home Entertainment
Available:September 2006
The Film:1 out of 5
This Australian horror film gives you stomach cramps and squirms for all the wrong reasons. Frighteningly it echoes Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead and has about the same level of success with suspense and scares.
It’s not nice to speak ill of the local products, but this one really does more harm than good. It’s all a grating meld of Aussie, American, Kiwi and Brit accents.
Ex reality TV show contestants go to an island where they are killed off by an ex reality TV show contestant (Wesley), the killer in camo-gear.
This isn’t a spoiler as the script waffles on about “Wes this” and “Wes that” at least 15 times in the first 15 minutes.
You have to put up with 40 minutes of laughable over acting, infantile scripting and clumsy attempts at atmosphere. Before death even comes knocking, then when the carnage begins its all off camera and in daylight.
Even the most desperate of horror fans will have nothing to get excited about here.
